Blog 10: Senior Project, The Holiday

1. It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school. What did you do over the break with your senior project?

Over the break, I completed 10 hours of mentorship for my senior project. With my mentor, we traveled to 3 Radio Based Stations to troubleshoot each one. The first RBS that we visited was located in the city of Compton. When we arrived to the area we immediately spotted the problem, because the power meter (Gives power to the Radio Based Station) had been run over by a truck.

First RBS

The second RBS we traveled to was in the City of Industry, and the problem with this site was that their was a power outage in the whole region. All of the lights were off, their was no electricity and we had to provide a power generator for the station until Edison brought the power back up.

Second RBS

Second RBS

The final RBS that I went to was located on top of a rooftop. The site had a simple issue which was that, the station had a bad setting. It took a really long time to discover out the problem as it was so small and we thought the solution was something else but we figured it out in the end.

Third RBS

2. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why? What was the source of what you learned?

The most important thing that I have learned from my mentorship experience over the break, was how to replace a radio for an RBS. This was very important because most of the times if their is an issue with an RBS it mostly comes through the radios that provide cellular networks to the public. So in order to fix the issue we need to replace the damaged one with a brand new one. It took a lot of responsibility because the radios cost around thousands of dollars and damaging another one would cause alot more problems. I learned to replace a damaged radio, through the help of my mentor when we arrived to the second RBS located on a rooftop.

3. If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers of your EQ, who would you talk to and why?

I would talk to my mentor's colleague because he has been an RF Field Engineer since my father has been and he can answer my questions in a whole new perspective from my mentor's interview.